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Book SynopsisThis handbook brings together expertise from a range of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts to address a key question facing prison policymakers, architects and designers – what kind of carceral environments foster wellbeing, i.e. deliver a rehabilitative, therapeutic environment, or other ‘positive’ outcomes?
The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Design offers insights into the construction of custodial facilities, alongside consideration of the critical questions any policymaker should ask in commissioning the building of a site for human containment. Chapters present experience from Australia, Chile, Estonia, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States – jurisdictions which vary widely in terms of the history and development of their prison systems, their punitive philosophies, and the nature of their public discourse about the role and purpose of imprisonment, to offer readers theories, frameworks, historical accounts, design approaches, methodological strategies, empirical research, and practical approaches.
Table of Contents1. Introduction
Yvonne Jewkes, Dominique Moran, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill and Victor St. John
Part 1: The History and Philosophy of Custodial Design
2. That Time We Tried to Build the Perfect Prison: Learning from Episodes Across U.S. Prison History
Ashley T. Rubin
3. Defining the Mechanisms of Design: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Melissa Nadel
4. Custodial Design: Collective Methods
Kevin Bradley and Rohan Lulham
5. What works least worst? A personal account of two new prison design projects
Yvonne Jewkes
6. The Creative Prison Revisited
Saul Hewish
7. Prison Design: Between Pragmatic Engagement and the Dream of Decarceration
Roger Paez with Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
8. Prison architecture in Chile: A Critical Realist analysis of prison architectural outputs through the lens of organised hypocrisy theory.
Alberto Urrutia-Moldes and Fionn Stevenson.
9. The Architecture and Design of the Communist and Post-Communist Prison in Europe
Judith Pallot and Olga Zeveleva
Part 2: Determining the “effectiveness” of Custodial Design
10. Challenges and Solutions in Establishing the Impact of Custodial Design
Melissa Nadel
11. Evaluating Correctional Environments: A Critical psychosociospatial Approach
Todd Levon Brown
12. Toward a Dignified Design: O-T-I, S-L-S, and Experience in Carceral Space
Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill
13. A model for the design of youth custodial facilities: Key characteristics to promote effective treatment
Matt Dwyer and Sanne Oostermeijer
14. Designing a Rehabilitative Prison Environment
Jennifer Galouzis, Andrew Day, Stuart Ross and Diana Johns
Part 3: Designing for Imprisoned Populations
15. How Prison Spaces Work on Bodies: Prison Design in the Norwegian Youth Units
Elisabeth Fransson
16. Does Design Matter? An environmental psychology study in youth detention
Rohan Lulham
17. Prisoners with severe mental illnesses and everyday prison interior (re)design
Kathryn Cassidy, Wendy Dyer, Paul Biddle, Louise Ridley, Toby Brandon and Norman McClelland
18. Autoethnographic Analyses of Prison Design’s Impacts
Douglas N. Evans, Abdullah Al-Muwahid, Sincere Allah, Michael Bright, Sean Kyler, Ibn Loyal, Anthony Martin, Shantai Rogers, Aaron Sheppard, and Harold Thompson
19. Culture Change within Facilities that Incarcerate
Hugh D. Lester and Christine Tartaro
20. Gendered Inconsiderations of Carceral Space
Lindsay Smith
21. A Cultural Competence Framework for Corrections in Hawai’i
Cathi Ho Schar
Part 4: Custodial Design for Spaces and Functions
22. From Grey to Green: Guidelines for Designing Health-Promoting Correctional Environments
Julie Stevens, Amy Wagenfeld and Barb Toews
23. Does nature contact in prison improve wellbeing? Greenspace, self-harm, violence and staff sickness absence in prisons in England and Wales.
Dominique Moran, Phil I Jones, Jacob A Jordaan, Amy E Porter
24. Designing green prisonscapes in Norway: Balancing considerations of safety and security, rehabilitation and humanity
Berit Johnsen
25. Prioritizing accountability and reparations: Restorative justice design and infrastructure
Barb Toews
26. Made in Prison – Understanding knowledge exchange, co-design and production of cell furniture with prisoners to reimagine prison industries for safety, wellbeing, and sustainability
Lorraine Gamman and Laura Caulfield
